Example sentences of "what [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French students commented on the relaxed and friendly atmosphere in the college and were envious of what seemed to them to be very small classes . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the price of cattle fell from £5 a head to £1 a head shortly after this arrangement was made , and the Masai found themselves being asked to pay more and more for what seemed to them to be less and less — for some of the waterworks had already begun to fail . |
| 3 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 4 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 5 | One of the most vocal critics of reorganization , an officer of more than 20 years ' standing , deplored what seemed to him to be an essential transformation in pollution control work . |
| 6 | " Well , then , " she continued , with what seemed to her to be the very height of aware sophistication , " why ever did you want to come here on this sort of trip ? " |
| 7 | Molly turned the paper over and found a list of figures prefixed with lire signs and equipped with what seemed to her to be generous allowances of noughts . |
| 8 | She followed that up with what seemed to her to be the inevitable question : ‘ Well , are you a virgin then ? ’ |
| 9 | He secured some West Riding support for what came to him to be a cause , but his own town , proud of its independence in educational provision , was reluctant to set up a school board after the Education Act of 1870 . |
| 10 | The second section , " Hiroshima 1945–1979 " , is a set of portraits of contributors to " Genboku no ko " ( Children of the Atomic Bombing ) , 186 accounts by children of what happened to them on 6 August 1945 . |
| 11 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you know what happened to him during the reign of the Great Criminal ? ’ |
| 13 | The narrator is basically reflecting on what happened to him during childhood , adolescence and into adulthood . |
| 14 | And what happened to him after that ? |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe what happened to him in ‘ 86 might be reversed in ‘ 92 , ’ said the England manager . |
| 16 | My mother was working class and did n't ever question what happened to her as a cancer patient and the motto I had in the family , in relation to health in particular , was ‘ Do as you 're told ’ . |
| 17 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 19 | I thought he had been right , and that what happened to me on that oily beach was all I was fit for . |
| 20 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 21 | I can answer that by telling you what happened to me during the Tencel plant opening at Mobile in December . |
| 22 | But it 's the story of how I did them , of what happened to me in doing them . |
| 23 | That parallel world really exists , and what happened to me in 1978 was that I unwittingly blundered into it . ’ |
| 24 | I 'll be telling most some of the tales about that time , and then the other tales will be about what happened to me in sixty nine when I started up , because the changing legislation s more or less said that if you had a vehicle of thirty hundredweight or less you could move an er wh whoever 's furniture you liked anywhere you wanted to . |
| 25 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 26 | What happened to you since then ? |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe that 's what happened to you in the engine room . |
| 28 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |
| 29 | What happened to us in our seven years at the grammar school was that we felt safe and we felt encouraged . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you regret what happened to us in Seville ? ’ he asked levelly . |